Warning: Overheating Video Cards

[kaynide]

Hi, this may or may not be a FFXIV thing, but figured it couldn't hurt to share information:

TL;DR, Update fried my dated video card, almost fried wife's.

TL version:

So, as soon as the update dropped, I started it up on my main PC and the video card FRIED. Overheated, burned out capacitors, electrical burn stink. The works. Maybe 15 minutes in game.

It's an older Geforce card (20xx series), so low-end-but-should-work. The Benchmark said we were well within "average".

I figured, hey, it's old.

Then, my wife's overheated (She also has a similar 20xx series card, slightly better than mine). It hasn't burned out, but it got blazing hot and eventually blue screened.

No other games give us this issue, and we have several that are comparable to FFXIV or run at higher settings no problem.

Be advised, but also it could just be coincidence. If anyone else is having similar problems feel free to add it here. Solutions if any, are welcome!

Note: I updated mine to a 4060 and it's running fine.